The autoclass directive adds the class constructor's argspec to the header and shows the class docstring
below it but doesn't add the constructor's docstring. I usually use the class docstring to describe the
class and the constructor's docstring to describe the constructor arguments so if the constructor argspec
is being shown, I would expect the description of it to be included below.

Result of svn diff sphinx/ext/autodoc.py:

Index: sphinx/ext/autodoc.py
===================================================================

--- sphinx/ext/autodoc.py	(revision 62582)
+++ sphinx/ext/autodoc.py	(working copy)
@@ -154,6 +154,13 @@
     result.append(indent + '.. %s:: %s%s' % (what, qualname, args), '<autodoc>')
     result.append('', '<autodoc>')
 
+    # added by abhik (4/29/08)
+    if what == 'class':
+        initdoc = inspect.getdoc(getattr(todoc, '__init__'))
+        if initdoc:
+            docstring = docstring if docstring else ''
+            docstring += "\n" + indent + initdoc
+
     # the module directive doesn't like content
     if what != 'module':
         indent += '   '

I don't know how other people would expect autodoc to work so maybe this behavior could be controlled by
a config param?

Okay, I added a config value ("autoclass_content") in r62697. Let me
know what you think!

Works great.. Thanks!

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:38 AM, Georg Brandl <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> added the comment:

Okay, I added a config value ("autoclass_content") in r62697. Let me
know what you think!

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resolution: -> fixed
status: open -> closed

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